chas wrote:

Steve hit this on the nose. On other trips we've camped well away from the
food, this time we only left 100 feet or so, but despite the ever present
footprints we only saw one bear on the trip, and as soon as the other guys made
enough niose to alert me, he took off. We were fishing a small backwater for
silvers, and the bear came to about 30 to 50 yards from us before he heard us
and took off.

I'm really good at quantitative estimates of time and space, as Willi
can testify. Also weight (our 150lb cooler, for example.) It was 70
yards, +/- 5.

:-)

I can also estimate costs with astonishing precision. I'm a dunce when
it comes to the larger picture, however.

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